阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer of his plans to 1the house-building business and live a more 2life with his wife and 3his extended family. He 4the paycheck (工资) each week, but he wanted to retire. They could get by.
The employer was 5to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, 6over time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He used 7workmanship (工艺; 手艺) and inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to 8a dedicated (献身的) career.
When the carpenter finished his work, his employer came to 9the house. Then he handed the front-door 10to the carpenter and said, “This is your house…my 11to you.”
The carpenter was shocked!
What a 12! If he had only known he was building his own house, he would have done it all so differently.
13it is with us. We build our lives, a day at a time, often putting 14than our best into the building. Then, with a shock, we 15we have to live in the house we have built. If we could do it over again, we would do it much differently.
You can’t 16. You are the carpenter, and every day you hammer in a nail, position a board, or build a wall. Someone 17said, “Life is a do-it-yourself project”. Your 18, and the choices you 19today, help build the “house” you will live in tomorrow. Therefore, build 20!
1.A. continue B. start C. leave D. find
2.A. leisurely B. lonely C. orderly D. friendly
3.A. support B. share C. enjoy D. care
4.A. will miss B. would miss C. missed D. miss
5.A. polite B. nervous C. proud D. sorry
6.A. but B. while C. when D. before
7.A. perfect B. good C. bad D. beautiful
8.A. satisfy B. improve C. meet D. end
9.A. buy B. repair C. see D. sell
10.A. roof B. window C. key D. design
11.A. gift B. promise C. salary D. words
12.A. disappointment B. shame C. pleasure D. success
13.A. So B. Yet C. As D. Such
14.A. worse B. more C. rather D. less
15.A. realize B. explain C. think D. admit
16.A. step forward B. go back C. come out D. look around
17.A. never B. again C. once D. nearly
18.A. attitude B. experience C. skill D. advantage
19.A. learn B. take C. see D. make
20.A. badly B. wisely C. early D. confidently
地球温室效应是全世界人类关注的焦点，如今世界各国都在倡导低碳生活以尽量减少二氧化碳排放来保护地球，请你以“低碳生活”为标题写一篇关于提倡低碳生活，保护地球从我做起的文章。
参考信息：
1.每周有一天吃素
2.不使用时，关掉所有电器，包括灯
3.尽量使用自己的杯子和餐具
4.不要购买没必要的衣物
5.外出尽量走路或骑自行车
6.取消不必要的打印工作
参考词汇：低碳low carbon 电器 appliances
字数要求：120词左右
此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。
此行缺一个词： 在缺词处加一个漏字符号(^)， 在该行右边横线上写该加的词。
此行错一个词： 在错的词下划一横线， 在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意： 原行没有错的不要改。
Believe it or not, proper nervousness has its advantage. 1.__________
Like in sports events to make athletes to gain good results, it can also 2.__________
sharpen our mind, thus allow us to perform well in exams. 3.__________
However, too much nervousness can result from sleeplessness, 4.__________
harming our health. What’s worse, it can make our mind at loss. As a 5.__________
consequence, our mistakes increased in exams, and we may even fail 6.__________
to write any answers.
Several methods can be used to solve the problem above. Firstly, 7.__________
review our lessons well, that can make us have more confidence and less 8.__________
anxious. Secondly, take some deep breath to calm down at the beginning of 9.__________
any exam. Last and not least, always keep this in mind: I’ve studied hard, so 10.__________
I’m sure to do the best I can.
根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并将答案填写在本题下面的横线上。选项中有两项多余选项。（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
Purser: Excuse me, have you filled out your customs declaration form yet?
Han: No, I haven’t. ___1.____
Purser: Yes._____2.______
Han: Thanks...It looks rather complicated.
Purser:___3.____ ---the Prohibited Articles List and the Duty-Free Quota List. Right.Here.
Han: I have nothing but personal belongings.
Purser:_____4.__. But please go over the lists to make sure that you have nothing to declare.
Han: All right. We seem to be standing still.
Purser: ____5.____. We’ve waiting for the quarantine (防疫)and immigration(移民) officers to come on board to check the passport and health certificates. There they are now, on that launch.
Han: Well, I’d better hurry and get ready to go ashore. Thank you.
A. In that case, just put down “personal effects”.
B. I can help you. Please look through the two lists.
C. Am I to fill it out before we land?
D. I’d better hurry now.
E. Here’s a form for you, sir.
F. The ship is docking(靠码头) soon.
G. What can I do with all my belongings?
Divorce is bad for environment
US researchers raised a new theory on Monday: divorce is bad for the environment.
The global trend toward higher divorce rates has created more households with fewer People，scientists at Michigan State University reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences．
More households means more houses，fuel and water are Heeded for them，the researchers wrote．“Globally，the number of households is increasing much faster than the number of people，”said co-author “Jack” Liu in a telephone interview. “Even in regions with declining population, we see substantial increase in the number of households. Divorce is the main reason for reducing the number of people in a household,” he said.
The average divorced person’s household is about 40 to 50 percent smaller than the average married person’s household, Liu said. But whether there are three or six people in a house ,the amount of fuel needed to heat them is about the same.
In the United States, divorced households used 74 billion kilowatt—hours of electricity and 2.850 trillion liters of water in 2005, half of which could have been saved if households had stayed the same size as when they were married.
In the United States and 11 other countries between 1998 and 2002, if divorced households had combined to have the same average household size as married households, there could have been 7.4 million fewer households.
The number of divorced households in those countries ranged from 40,000 in Costa Rica to almost 16 million in the United States around 2000. The number of rooms per person in divorced households was 33 percent to 95 percent greater than in married households.
“If you really want to get divorced, maybe you can remarry with somebody else, or live together with somebody else you like”, Liu said.
1.In America when the number of households is , the number of people in a house is .
A. increasing, decreasing B. decreasing, increasing
C. increasing, increasing D. decreasing, decreasing
2.What does the word “substantial” in the third paragraph mean?
A. Great B. Little C. Sudden D. Timely
3.How much electricity would have been saved without so many people getting divorced in America in 2005?
A. 7.4 million kilowatt-hours B. 16 million kilowatt-hours
C. 37 billion kilowatt-hours D. about 30 billion kilowatt-hours
4.The last paragraph is the writer’s for people.
A. advice B. encouragement C. demand D. order
“Old wives tales” are beliefs passed down from one generation to another, For example, most of us remember our parents’ telling us to eat more of certain foods or not to do certain things. Is there any truth in these teachings? Some of them agree with present medical thinking, but others have not passed the test of time.
Did your mother ever tell you to eat your carrots because they are good for your eyes? Scientists now report that eating carrots can help prevent a serious eye disease called macular degeneration. Eating just one carrot a day can reduce the possibility of getting this disease by 40%. Garlic is good for you, too. It can kill the type of virus that causes colds.
Unfortunately, not all of Mom’ s advice passed the test of medical studies, For example, generations of children have been told not to go swimming within an hour after eating. But research suggests that there is no danger in doing so. Do sweets cause tooth problems? Well, yes and no. Sticky sweets made with grains tend to cause more problems than sweets made with simple sugars.
Even though science can tell us that some of our traditional beliefs don’t hold water, there is still a lot of truth in the old wives’ tales. After all, much of this knowledge has been accumulated from thousands of years of experience in family health care. We should respect this body of knowledge even as we search for clear scientific support to prove it true or false.
1.Which of the following is TRUE according to the test?
A. Eating garlic is good for our eyes. B. Sticky sweets are damaging to our teeth.
C. Swimming after a meal is dangerous. D. Carrots prevent people from catching colds.
2.The author develops the third paragraph mainly .
A. by cause and effect B. by order in space
C. by order in time D. by examples
3.The phrase “hold water” in the last paragraph most probably means”_____”.
A. to be believable B. to be valuable C. to be admirable D. to be suitable
4.What is the author’s attitude toward “old wives tales” in the text?
A. Subjective B. Objective C. Dissatisfied D. Curious
